Re: Yet Another Hardware Question :)

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Michael A. Balfour writes ...
> 
> In my further quest to intimately understand the Apple IIs hardware in
> the hopes of providing a truly faithful emulation experience, I've moved
> on to disk drive emulation (it's easier to test the rest if I can load
> and save my test programs :).
> 
> As with the graphics, I've got enough documentation to make a functional
> emulation, but I'd like to handle the crazy cases as well.  That being
> said, does anybody have any programs that make the disk drive make cool
> noises?  I seem to recall seeing a program once that made the disk drive
> sound like it was having sex,

 ....

     Though our GS 3.5" drives have been screwed a couple times, there
was nothing very special about the sounds they made. 

     I vaguely recall something about making sounds on 5.25" and other
disk drives; but, do not know where any of these programs are. You could
experiment using the head move commands and RWTS routines (e.g. SEEK
track). Good documentation for this stuff is in Beneath Apple DOS by
Worth & Lechner.



Rubywand